California alternative
The crossword clue "California alternative" is answered by BUST, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BUST
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BUST answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Every other clue in this collection answered by BUST, most used first.
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